[Ip-health] Is Health Reform Too Pharma Friendly?: A Discussion Featuring Consumers, Payers, & Leading Policymakers

[Bailey Gilchrist]

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EVENT ADVISORY
    National Coalition on Health Care
     Media Contact: 202-213-7233
jprocter@gibraltar-llc.com<mailto:jprocter@gibraltar-llc.com>
Thursday, October 8, 2009


Is Health Reform Too Pharma Friendly?

A Discussion Featuring Consumers, Payers, & Leading Policymakers

October 14 at 9:30 AM
Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, DC - On Wednesday, October 14, the National Coalition on Health=
 Care (NCHC) and the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) will=
 host a health care briefing at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington,=
 D.C.  NCHC and PCMA are hosting the briefing to ask important questions ab=
out how best to make prescription drugs more affordable as part of overall =
health reform and whether proposals tilt too heavily in favor of the brand-=
name drug industry.

With Senate and House floor debates on health reform expected soon, many qu=
estions remain as to how emerging proposals will reduce prescription drug c=
osts.

The briefing will provide a range of perspectives, including those from con=
sumers, payers, and leading policymakers.  Among the critical issues facing=
 policymakers in the coming months are how best to create a regulatory path=
way allowing for generic versions of high-cost biotech products and how to =
enhance access and lower costs in the Medicare prescription drug benefit.  =
In addition to NCHC and PCMA, panelists include former U.S. House Ways and =
Means Committee chairman Bill Thomas and patients from Michigan and Virgini=
a.

WHAT:           NCHC, PCMA:  Is Health Reform Too Pharma Friendly?

WHO:             MODERATOR: Nick Schulz, DeWitt Wallace Fellow, American En=
terprise Institute, Editor, American.com
Ralph G. Neas, CEO, National Coalition on Health Care
The Honorable Bill Thomas, former Chairman, U.S. House Ways and Means Commi=
ttee
Mark Merritt, President and CEO, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association
Rob Day of Michigan and Anne Collins of Virginia, Patients

WHEN:           Wednesday, October 14, 2009
                        09:30 AM ET

WHERE:         Kaiser Family Foundation
Executive Conference Room
1330 G Street, NW
Washington, D.C.

RSVP:             To RSVP, please email: jprocter@gibraltar-llc.com<mailto:=
jprocter@gibraltar-llc.com>





About the National Coalition on Health Care
The National Coalition on Health Care is the nation's largest and most broa=
dly representative alliance working to improve America's health care. The C=
oalition, which was founded in 1990 and is non-profit and rigorously non-pa=
rtisan, is comprised of more than 80 organizations, employing or representi=
ng about150 million Americans. Members are united in the belief that we nee=
d - and can achieve - quality affordable, and sustainable health care for e=
veryone. http://www.nchc.org

About the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association
The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) is the national assoc=
iation representing America's pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). PBMs admini=
ster prescription drug plans for more than 210 million Americans with healt=
h coverage provided through Fortune 500 employers, health insurance plans, =
labor unions, and Medicare Part D. www.pcmanet.org<http://www.pcmanet.org>